Abdominal obesity and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

  Posted by Chantel M. Research contributed by the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

The prevalence of childbearing age obesity is wide spreading in US, approximately, 50% of them are either overweight [body mass index (BMI) 25-29.9 kg/m(2)] or obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)).
Abdominal obesity and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
In a study of a Sample size fof 1052 Indian girls from 3 different colleges were approached (n = 2150), 1520 (70.7%) agreed to participate. They were asked to fill up a questionnaire asking details of menstrual cycle and features of hyperandrogenism, conducted by the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, posted in PubMed, found that calculated prevalence of PCOS in women between the ages of 18-25 years from Lucknow, north India, is 3.7%. Majority of these girls were lean but have abdominal obesity.

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